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  1. Title: Mei guo san fan shi hua qiao qu : xiang xi tu = Map of San Francisco Chinatown. Published September, 1929. Compiled by J. P. Wong (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of an original lithograph map with 2 insets, showing the extent of Chinatown in San Francisco and, in the second inset map, the extent of Oakland's Chinatown. Drawn by J. P. Wong. The main map is in Mandarin and English. Oriented with north towards lower right. It is the first map made by Chinese Americans of San Francisco for the Chinese community. The map depicts the largest Chinatown in North America during the Roaring '20s, an especially dramatic period in the neighborhood's history. It shows city blocks and building lots, each with appropriate street address numbers. The map was made for the Benevolent Association also known as the Chinese Six companies formed in 1882. The map is horizontally centered on Grant Street the heart of the neighborhood, bordered by Bush Street, Broadway Street on the north, Powell Street on the west, and Montgomery Street on the east. The street names and a few properties are in English, all other Chinese businesses and residence are in Chinese. This copy with applied water color showing Chinatown as delineated in Willard B. Farwell's 1885 large folding map "Official map of Chinatown in San Francisco Chinatown" made for the Board of Supervisors reporting on the condition of the Chinese Quarter and the Chinese of San Francisco (see our 6714.000). The 1885 map was also issued in smaller size in the San Francisco Municipal Report of 1884-85 (see our 5807.000). The color scheme on this 1929 map appears to be updated significantly from the 1885 map. Some of the updating may relate to the rebuilding of Chinatown after the 1906 earthquake. It is possible that the color was not applied in the original publishing, but later by someone else This project traces the history of urban planning in San Francisco, placing special emphasis on unrealized schemes. Rather than using visual material simply to illustrate outcomes, Imagined San Francisco uses historical plans, maps, architectural renderings, and photographs to show what might have been. By enabling users to layer a series of urban plans, the project presents the city not only as a sequence of material changes, but also as a contingent process and a battleground for political power. Savvy institutional actors--like banks, developers, and many public officials--understood that in some cases to clearly articulate their interests would be to invite challenges. That means that textual sources like newspapers and municipal reports are limited in what they can tell researchers about the shape of political power. Urban plans, however, often speak volumes about interests and dynamics upon which textual sources remain silent. Mortgage lenders, for example, apparently thought it unwise to state that they wished to see a poor neighborhood cleared, to be replaced with a freeway onramp. Yet visual analysis of planning proposals makes that interest plain. So in the process of showing how the city might have looked, Imagined San Francisco also shows how political power actually was negotiated and exercised. Wong, J.P. (2021). Mei guo san fan shi hua qiao qu : xiang xi tu = Map of San Francisco Chinatown. Published September, 1929. Compiled by J. P. Wong (Raster Image). Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/pt740jp0404 This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

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  2. Title: Florida and Georgia, ca. 1807 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte de la Floride et de la Georgie, P.F. Tardieu, sculpsit ; P.J. Valet, scripsit. It was published by P.G. Chanlaire and E. Mentelle ca. 1807. Scale ca. 1:3,500,000. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the North American Lambert Conformal Conic coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes also names of states, Indian territories, cities, towns, and swampland. Map covers also part of South Carolina, Louisiana and the Bahamas. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  3. Title: Plunket Point: Antarctica

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    Summary: Projection: Polar Stereographic Projection: Standard Parallels -84º14'; Series: USGS 1:250,000 Geologic Reconnaissance Series

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  4. Title: Buckley Island: Antarctica

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    Summary: Projection: Polar Stereographic Projection: Standard Parallels -84º14'; Series: USGS 1:250,000 Geologic Reconnaissance Series

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  5. Title: Mount Elizabeth and Mount Kathleen: Antarctica

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    Summary: Projection: Polar Stereographic Projection: Standard Parallels -80º14'; Series: USGS 1:250,000 Geologic Reconnaissance Series

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  6. Title: Mount Rabot: Antarctica

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    Summary: Projection: Polar Stereographic Projection: Standard Parallels -80º14'; Series: USGS 1:250,000 Geologic Reconnaissance Series

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  7. Title: The basins of the Mississippi and tributaries, their systems of drainage and downfall

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    Summary: At head of title: U.S. Miss. Delta Survey. Plate 1. Relief shown by hachures. "Note. This map is mainly reduced from the official map, compiled in the Office of Explorations to exhibit Pacific Rail Road Routes, War Dept., and from Colton's Maps of the several States ... Red figures denote annual downfall of rain ..." "Prepared to accompany the report of Capt. A.A. Humphreys and Lieut. H.L. Abbot, Corps of Top'l. Eng'rs. U.S.A. to the Bureau of Topl. Engrs., War Dept."

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  8. Title: Havana and Harbor, Cuba, 1889 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Harbor of Havana : from the most recent Spanish surveys to 1879, J.C.P. de Krafft Commo. U.S.N. Hydrographer to the Bureau of Navigation. It was published by Hydrographic Office in Jany. 1882. Scale [ca. 1:8,000].The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'NAD 1927 Cuba Norte' coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map.This map shows coastal features such as lighthouses, buoys, beacons, rocks, channels, points, coves, islands, bottom soil types, wharves, and more. Includes also selected land features such as roads, railroads, drainage, ground cover, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortifications, and more. Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by shading and soundings. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  9. Title: Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean Region, 1882 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Behring's Sea and Arctic Ocean : from surveys of the U.S. North Pacific Surveying Expedition in 1855, Commander John Rodgers U.S.N. commanding and from Russian and English authorities, J.C.P. de Kraft, commodore U.S.N. Hydrographer to the Bureau of Navigation ; compiled by E.R. Knorr ; drawn by Louis Waldecker. Corr. & additions to Jan. 1882. It was published by U.S. Navy, Hydrographic Office in 1882. Scale [ca. 1:4,400,000]. Covers the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean region. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to a non-standard 'Mercator' projection with the central meridian at 180 degrees west. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. Note: The central meridian of this map is not the same as the Prime Meridian and may wrap the International Date Line or overlap itself when displayed in GIS software. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, expedition routes, shoreline features, bays, harbors, islands, rocks, and more. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. Includes drawing of Wrangel Island 'as seen from Bark Nile of New London ... ; 15 to 18 miles distant'. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection and the Harvard University Library as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University project: Organizing Our World: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age. Maps selected for the project correspond to various expeditions and represent a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  10. Title: Newport, Rhode Island, ca. 1892 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of Newport, R.I., surveyed by N.W. Eayrs, c.e. ; under the direction of J.P. Cotton, c.e. ; J. Bergner, del. It was published ca. 1892 by Simon Hart. Scale [ca. 1:13,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Rhode Island State Plane Coordinate System (Feet) (FIPS 3800). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, drainage, city ward boundaries, selected property boundaries, buildings, and names of property owners, and more. Includes inset: Road map of island of Rhode Island and Conanicut Island, surveyed by C.E. Hammett, Jr. Scale [ca. 1:85,000]. Also includes index to points of interest (churches, schools, hotels, libraries, mills, etc.), tables of elevation and distances, and shows radial distances. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of New England from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  11. Title: Map of mineral resources of Minnesota, 1966 (revised from 1956 edition)

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    Summary: Mineral resources map of Minnesota, scale 1:1,000,000.

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  12. Title: Map of mineral resources of Minnesota, 1956

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    Summary: Mineral resources map of Minnesota, scale 1:1,000,000.

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  13. Title: Map of mineral resources of Minnesota, 1954

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    Summary: Mineral resources map of Minnesota, scale 1:1,000,000.

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  14. Title: Groundwater map of Minnesota

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    Summary: Ground water map of Minnesota, scale 1:2,000,000.

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  15. Title: State of Illinois : compiled from the official records of the General Land Office and other sources under the supervision of G.P. Strum.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. 75 x 46.5 centimeters Scale 1:887,040. 14 miles to 1 inch General Map Collection

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  16. Title: State of Illinois : compiled from the official records of the General Land Office and other sources under the supervision of G.P. Strum.

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    Summary: Washington.;Relief shown by hachures.;Shows railroad land grant limits.;1 map, colored;75 x 46 cm.;1:887,040 or 14 miles to 1 inch

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  17. Title: State of Iowa; compiled from the official records of the General Land Office and other sources under supervision of G.P. Strum.

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    Summary: Shows railroads. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. Includes grid. 1 map: col.; 50 x 82 cm

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  18. Title: Plan d'Alise et de ses environs, 1739 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan d'Alise et de ses environs : pour l'intelligence de l'explication topographique du Siège de cette place (commentariorum Caesaris libro VII). It was published by: chez la veuve Estienne in 1739. Scale approximately 1:57,300, 1500 toises = 5.1 cm. Map in multiple languages. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the WGS 1984 UTM Zone 31N (EPSG: 32631) coordinate system. All map features and collar and inset information are shown as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of geographies, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  19. Title: Brussels, Belgium, 1882 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan de Bruxelles et des communes limitrophes. It was published by Kiessling & cie, P. Imbreghts, successeur in 1882. Scale [ca. 1:9,000]. Covers a portion of Brussels, Belgium. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Belgian Lambert 1972 coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map.This map shows features such as roads, railroads and stations, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, parks, and more.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  20. Title: Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea Region, 1717 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Le Golfe de Mexique : et les provinces et isles qui l'environe comme sont la Floride au nord, le Mexique ou Nouvelle Espagne a l'ouest, la Terre-Ferme au sud, les Is. Antilles, Lucayes, St. Domingue et Jamaique a l'est, dresses sur les nouvelles relations et les dernieres observations par N. de Fer, Geographe de sa Majeste Catolique ; P. Starck-man, sculpsit. It was published by Chez l'Auteur dans l'Isle du Palais sur le Quay de l'Orloge a la Sphere Royale, avec Privilege du Roy in 1717. Scale [ca. 1:9,000,000]. Map in French. Covers the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea Region including parts of southern United States, Mexico, Central America, West Indies, and northern South America.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the World Mercator projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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